Ragz had dabbled with modelling ever since she was a child as she did the rounds of advertising agencies with her father. But her interest in modelling was born out of her love for acting. The first to notice this was acclaimed director Shekhar Kapoor (of ‘Bandit Queen’ and ‘Elizabeth’ fame), and soon Ragz found herself facing the camera at a photo shoot for the lead role opposite Bobby Deol. All this at the tender age of 13! Her teenage awkwardness had the better of her as she failed to secure the part.

Cut to two years later, and Ragz signed her first film, ‘Zid’ only because the music of this film was to be composed by the legendary O.P. Nayyar. For the first schedule of shoot for the film Ragz had to beg for a month off from school as she was nearing her Class X board exams! Grappling with films and school, she managed to wrap up the film and secure a distinction in her exams.

Next on the anvil was a film with the director who went on to be nicknamed “Director No. 1”, David Dhawan. The film was titled ‘Aankhen’ and was produced by Pahlaj Nihalani and Ragz’ co-stars in the film were Chunkey Pandey and Govinda. ‘Aankhen’ proved to be one of the biggest hits of the year 1993 and Ragz followed it up the following year with another blockbuster that remains firmly etched in public memory- ‘Main Khiladi Tu Anari’.

It was around this time that television programming came into its own in India and Ragz was given the opportunity to exploit her love for acting on TV as a VJ on one of India’s most popular countdown shows, ‘BPL Oye’. In a later avatar of the show, Ragz went on to even write her own scripts and penned memorable characters such as ‘Titu Singh’, ‘Baby Pashu’, ‘Bahadur Singh’ and ‘Daadi’.